Slocomb's Pond has a bad reputation. Some people have returned from it with tales of hideous creatures living beneath its placid waters. Others have not returned at all. This is the story of four boys who, one winter night, decide to tempt Fate at Slocomb's Pond, and who are caught most unaware when Fate takes them up on their wager.

It's 1957 and aliens that resemble us but say very little about their origins are trading technology and advanced machines for some of our soil.Quickly companies form partnerships with the extraterrestrials and single mother, Lydia Meyer is convinced by a slick salesman that used to sell vacuum cleaners to purchase a new Solomon series robot to be a companion for her lonely son. It goes badly.

For those who enjoy the surreal, the wacky and the downright weird, this little story collection is for you-- plus, it has not one, not two, but three cat stories (OK, one is a virtual cat.) From confused rabbis to reality TV producers, you'll meet a host of kooky (and spooky) characters.
Note: several of these stories were previously published.

What terror lurks behind the fence in an ordinary neighborhood? What manner of monster will you see if you peek through a knothole? Something ugly. Something angry. Something with a very large appetite. Take a peek, go ahead. And then run back the way you came!!! You do not want to reach the end of the fence . . .

From the Kings of the Serial, Sean Platt and David Wright, who brought you the post-apocalyptic series, "Yesterday’s Gone," comes the new sci-fi horror series, "WhiteSpace."
Hamilton Island seems like the perfect home.
The Puget Sound bedroom community has it all — beautiful homes with white picket fences, a thriving tech sector, and one of the best school systems in the state.
But not everythi

Meagan Fischer wakes from the accident bloodied, disoriented, and alone. She remembers tires squealing, the Chevy's slow-motion cartwheel into the late summer tasseled corn, and the sickening crunch of failing steel.
As her senses return, she recalls one other thing quite clearly...the eerie figure they swerved to avoid. And she feels it lurking now, among the rows.

To what lengths would you go to survive? Put yourself in the worn-down shoes of a child, lost in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and slowly starving to death. When you stumble upon the ruins of an ancient gas station, you hope to find the food you so desperately need. You don't realize these ruins are already inhabited--by something just as hungry...

For James, the job was just a job, and an extremely boring one at that. Killing bugs was just another way to help the time pass more easily. It was nothing personal, just another part of the job. At least that was how it had always been before ... until the bugs started to take things a bit personally.

The Ark of the Witch is a surreal psychological mystery and step into a world where there seems to be no boundary between earth and the ancient pagan realm of the mythological underworld of Finlands Kalevala, Tuonela.

The Spider Lady was supposed to be just an urban legend. A spooky story to explain away the occasional missing pet or child. But when Charlie Berger and his friends attempt to contact the spirits of her alleged victims with a Ouija board, their harmless dabbling in the occult turns into a full-blown nightmare of death, destruction and angry zombies.